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Scotland’s Play Charter

Scotland’s Play Charter describes our collective commitment to play for all children and young people. Supporters of the Charter know that children have the right to play and value play as an essential part of children’s health and wellbeing as individuals and part of the community.

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Pledges to Scotland’s Play Charter

  • Gingerbread
  • Windygoul Primary School
  • Bridge of Weir Childcare
  • Home-Start Edinburgh West and South West
  • Forestry and Land Scotland
  • OSCARS Childcare
  • Emerald Maintenance
  • The Concrete Garden
  • Pirie Park Primary School
  • St Ninian’s Primary School
  • Clovenstone Primary School
  • The BIG Project
  • Holy Corner Community Playgroup
  • Udston Primary School
  • Bonding with Baby
  • Crieff Hydro Kids Club
  • Lauriston Nursery
  • St Denis’ Primary School
  • Arran High School
  • TICTACS After School Service
  • Heathfield Primary & Early Years Centre
  • Play Torbay
  • Scalloway Pre-School
  • Tarves Primary School
  • Barnardo’s APNA Project
  • Fife College
  • Barlanark Out of School Care
  • Bòrd na Gàidhlig
  • Holy Cross Primary School
  • Living Streets Scotland
  • Fountainhall Nursery
  • Mud Pie
  • Tinies
  • YouthLink Scotland
  • Enable Scotland
  • Castlepark Primary School
  • Playland
  • Guildford Borough Council Playrangers
  • Black Lion Games
  • St David’s Primary RC
  • West Dunbartonshire Council
  • Mosstodloch Primary School
  • Flowerbank Early Childhood Centre
  • Holmston Out of Skool Club
  • Child Central Training
  • Impact Arts
  • Goodlyburn Primary School
  • Play Borders
  • Busy Bees Nursery
  • Eyemouth Primary School
  • St David’s Primary School
  • Gullane After School Club
  • Family Fund Scotland
  • PlayBoard NI
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Tingwall Primary School
  • Orkney Library and Archive
  • Pentlands Activity Camps (PAC)
  • MyParkScotland
  • Hearts and Minds
  • Echline Primary School and Nursery Class
  • Burnfoot Community School
  • Gracemount Nursery
  • Culture NL
  • Kidsize Out of School Club
  • Clackmannanshire Council
  • Queens Cross Housing Association
  • Early Steps Nursery
  • East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Tinto Nursery
  • NG Homes
  • Stepping Stones North
  • Cornerstone Nursery
  • St Thomas Playgroup
  • Timberplay Scotland Ltd
  • Simpson Primary School & Nursery Class
  • North Queensferry Primary
  • LINKES
  • Melrose Primary School
  • First 4 Kids
  • Green Aspirations Scotland CIC
  • St Charles’ Primary School
  • Fife Gingerbread
  • Allsorts Dornoch
  • Busby Primary School
  • Warout Primary School
  • Quarriers
  • The Green Team
  • Gylemuir After School Club
  • Together – Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights
  • Innerwick Primary and Nursery School
  • Arkleston Primary School
  • Borders College
  • Outdoor Cleghorn
  • The Yard
  • PlayBase
  • Siblings Together and Reunited (STAR)
  • Shetland College UHI
  • Fields in Trust Scotland
  • Leaps and Bounds Activities (LBA)
  • Gleniffer Nursery
  • Step by Step Nursery
  • Task Childcare Services
  • Make Mess Matter
  • Scottish Historic Buildings Trust
  • Almond Park Nursery
  • Outlet Play Resource
  • Cosy Cottage Nursery School
  • Education Department East Dunbartonshire Council
  • Home-Start Levenmouth
  • Clermiston Primary School and Nursery
  • ASH Scotland
  • Crossmichael Primary School
  • Parenting Across Scotland
  • Scottish Out of School Care Network
  • Childcare in the Community
  • Support for Families
  • Edinburgh Young Carers Project
  • Balmore Kindergarten Ltd
  • Children’s Health Scotland
  • Hanover Street School
  • International Play Association Scotland
  • NHS Health Scotland
  • Falkirk Council
  • Outdoor Woodland Learning School (OWLS)
  • Scottish Government
  • Newton Nursery
  • Off Grid Kids
  • Croftamie Nursery
  • Fenton Barns Nursery
  • Mini French
  • Stirling ELC
  • Scalloway Youth & Community Centre
  • WHALE Arts
  • Ninewells Nursery
  • Antonine Primary School
  • Elphinstone Primary
  • Movement Park
  • St Gerard’s Nursery School
  • Smart Play Network
  • Coastguard Club
  • Auchinairn Afterschool Care & Forest School
  • Sciennes Primary School
  • Upstart Scotland
  • Ark Out of School Care
  • South Ayrshire Council
  • Holy Cross Nursery Class
  • Whinhill Primary School
  • Kinneil Primary School and Early Years Campus
  • Seahorse Nursery
  • Scout Association
  • Firsthand Lothian
  • North Ayrshire Council
  • Families First, North Lanarkshire Council
  • Healthy Valleys
  • Argyll & Bute Council
  • Cumbernauld YMCA
  • Inverbrothock OOSC
  • Penicuik YMCA-YWCA
  • Allan’s Nursery
  • Commercial Primary School
  • Argyll College
  • St John’s RC Primary
  • Abbey Early Years Centre
  • Cardonald Primary School
  • Boomerang Community Centre
  • Grange Primary School
  • Our Place Our Families
  • East Lothian Out of School Care Network
  • Musselburgh Burgh Primary School
  • Bankhead After School Care Service
  • Creative STAR
  • Wellgreen Nursery, Stirling
  • Rattray Primary School
  • Childcare Strategy Team
  • Craigton Primary School
  • Edinburgh and Lothians Out of School Care Network
  • Jordanhill Out of School Service
  • Operation Play Outdoors
  • South Lanarkshire College
  • Meadowburn Primary School
  • Support from the Start North Berwick Cluster
  • The Scottish Parliament
  • Cockburnspath Primary School
  • St Sylvester’s Primary School
  • TIGERS
  • Loader Monteith
  • The Cottage Family Centre
  • Adelaides Nursery
  • Play Alloa
  • Milltimber Playgroup
  • Smallworld Out of School Club
  • Aberlour Childcare Trust
  • Whiteness Primary School
  • South Morningside Primary School and Nursery
  • Dunbar Primary School Nursery
  • Falkirk Community Trust Libraries
  • Flowerpots Childcare
  • Firpark Primary School
  • With Kids
  • Middleton Park School
  • Interactive Play Scotland
  • North Edinburgh Childcare
  • Chanonry Beaver Scouts
  • Red Harbour Events
  • NHS West Dunbartonshire
  • Gowrie Training and Consultancy
  • Orchard Grove Kindergarten
  • Monkey Puzzle Glasgow Central
  • Bright Starts Nursery
  • The Nurture Nursery
  • The Creativity Portal
  • Wardie Primary School
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • Maddiston Primary School
  • Enterprise Childcare
  • PEEK Project
  • Bikeability
  • Seamab
  • Woodland Outdoor Kindergartens
  • Renfrewshire Council
  • Riverside Primary School
  • Leaps and Bounds Nursery
  • Thornlie Primary School
  • Little Steps Childminding
  • Law Primary School and North Berwick Nursery School
  • Alyth OOSC
  • Nurture the Play
  • University of the West of Scotland
  • Busy Bairns Childminder
  • Fife Play Resource, Fife Play Development Team, Fife Council
  • St Rose of Lima Primary School
  • Toybox Children’s Centre
  • Simply Play
  • St Columba’s Junior School
  • Dundee and Angus College
  • Fun Lodge After School Care
  • Craiglockhart After School Club
  • Support, Help and Integration in Perthshire
  • Springfield Primary School
  • St Paul’s Primary School
  • Parent Action for Safe Play
  • Tweedbank Early Learners
  • Dens Road Primary School
  • East End Empowering Stars
  • Scaraway Nursery School
  • Fusion Childcare Services
  • Greener Kirkcaldy
  • The Destiny Project
  • Giffnock Nursery Class
  • St George’s School for Girls
  • West Johnstone Early Learning and Childcare Centre
  • PLUS Forth Valley Ltd
  • Liberton After School Club
  • Starcatchers
  • Enchanted Forest Nursery
  • Aberlady ELOSCN
  • Muck Primary School
  • Dumfries Toy Library
  • NHS Forth Valley
  • Crieff Hydro
  • West College Scotland
  • Woodlands Family Nurture Centre
  • Culture & Leisure
  • Borestone Primary School
  • South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
  • Support from the Start Musselburgh Cluster
  • Johnshaven School
  • Stirling Play Services, Stirling Council
  • SPELL
  • Kids Come First
  • University of Dundee
  • Preschool Academy
  • Play Together on Pedals
  • Eastmuir Primary School
  • Islesburgh OOSC
  • Whiteinch Centre
  • North Edinburgh Arts
  • Angus Council
  • St Peter’s RC Primary School
  • East Pollockshields Out of School Care
  • Child’s Play
  • St Joseph’s Primary School
  • Hillwood Primary School
  • MACS After School Care
  • St Mary’s Nursery Class
  • Support from the Start Prestonpans Cluster
  • Reidvale Adventure Play Association Limited
  • Lecropt Nursery and Bridge of Allan OOSC
  • Muirhouse Youth Development Group
  • Glebelands Nursery
  • C.O.J.A.C. Caring Operations Joint Action Council
  • Angus Alive
  • Linnvale Primary
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Adoption UK
  • Newtown Primary School
  • Sgoil-àraich Taobh na Pàirce
  • Tiptoe’s Children’s Nursery
  • New College Lanarkshire
  • Tweeddale Youth Action
  • Mini Me Yoga Ambassador
  • Home-Start Wigtownshire
  • Child’s Play Nursery
  • Dirleton Playgroup
  • Argyle Bridge Children’s Nursery
  • Perth & Kinross Council
  • Sacred Heart Primary School
  • Òganan Ghlaschu
  • Jordanhill School
  • Fife Childcare Services
  • Rosetta Early Learners
  • Scamps SOSC
  • Ayrshire College
  • Parsons Green Primary
  • Getting Better Together
  • St Peter’s Primary School
  • Canongate Youth
  • Licketyspit
  • Leisure and Culture
  • Evanton Wood Community Company
  • Hyndland After School Club
  • Rosemount Lifelong Learning
  • Glasgow Life
  • Welly Walkers Childminding
  • What’s on Inverbervie Community
  • Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
  • Home-Start Lorn
  • Little Scallywags Nursery
  • Little Lunches
  • NHS GGC Children and Families
  • Kilbarchan AAC
  • East Park
  • Aberfoyle Nursery
  • Lanarkshire Childcare Services
  • Home-Start East Fife
  • First Nursery
  • Perth Autism Support
  • Scottish Book Trust
  • Access Parkour Ltd
  • James Gillespie’s Nursery
  • Laura’s Little Treasures
  • 3D Drumchapel
  • Camperdown Primary School and Nursery
  • St Martin’s Primary School and Nursery
  • Iona Primary Early Years
  • Whitburn and District Community Development Trust
  • University of Strathclyde
  • Forgandenny Primary School
  • Murrayburn Primary School
  • Caldercuilt Primary School & Nursery
  • Stramash
  • Cairnsmoir Connections
  • Gargurnnock Play Group
  • St Andrew’s RC Primary School
  • Oxgangs Primary School
  • St Boswells Primary School
  • Oxfordshire Play Association
  • Inclusive Play
  • Edinburgh College
  • Fledglings Childminding Service
  • Little Forest Friends Scotland
  • Aberdeen City Council
  • The Wee Childcare Company Ltd
  • Support from the Start Tranent Cluster
  • High School of Dundee
  • Gap Childcare Services
  • Play and Sports Limited
  • Craigour Park Primary School and Nursery
  • Wee Gems
  • Maggie’s Childminding Service
  • Broomhill OOSC
  • Roots and Shoots Highland Learning
  • Biggar Primary School and Nursery
  • West Lothian Council
  • Include Me 2 Club
  • Meiklewood Nursery and After School Care
  • East of the Sun, West of the Moon
  • Cookfur Nursery Class
  • Inspiring Scotland
  • Pencaitland Primary School Parent Council
  • City of Edinburgh Council
  • Galleon Centre
  • Mid Calder Primary School
  • Kidzcare
  • KO-NEKT (Childcare)
  • Prestonpans ASC
  • Summerston Childcare
  • Edzell Nursery
  • Support from the Start Dunbar Cluster
  • Hayburn Park Association
  • Linthaugh Nursery School
  • St Margaret’s Primary School
  • Little Acorns
  • Burnbrae Primary School
  • North United Communities
  • Beech House Nursery
  • East Ayrshire Council
  • Dunblane Youth & Sports Centre Trust
  • Aberdeenshire Council
  • ACE Place Nursery and OSC
  • Carli’s Kindergarten
  • Jennyswell Out of School Care
  • Castleton Primary School
  • Newtongrange ASC
  • Voluntary Action
  • Edible Estates
  • Professional Learning Academy
  • Lamlash Early Years Class
  • Babysign
  • St Ninians Nursery
  • Maxwellton Park Nursery & OSC
  • Houston Primary School
  • Early Education UK
  • Healthy n Happy CDT
  • Wallyford Primary School
  • Battlefield Primary ASC Association (BPASCA)
  • Doune Nursery
  • South Lanarkshire Council
  • Glenbervie Kindergarden
  • Home-Start Kincardine
  • Project 31
  • Corstorphine Primary School
  • Holy Corner Community Group
  • Erskine Stewart Melville School
  • Chatelherault Nursery & ASC
  • CALL Scotland
  • Parent and Infant Mental Health Scotland
  • Pilton Youth and Children’s Project
  • Sgoil Bhaile a’ Mhanaich, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
  • Old Doune Road Nursery
  • Youth Scotland
  • Oxley Park Academy
  • Bruce Family Centre
  • Abbey Mill Childcare
  • Park Primary School
  • Newmains Family Learning Centre
  • Forest School Leader
  • EA Junior School
  • St Leonard’s Primary and Nursery School
  • CHAS
  • Support from the Start Haddington Cluster
  • Langlee Support Centre, Langlee Primary School
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • Buttons & Bows Nursery School
  • RHC NHS GGC
  • Parkour UK
  • Midlothian Sure Start
  • Earthtime for All Ltd
  • Knightswood Primary
  • Play Midlothian
  • Balornock Primary School
  • City of Play
  • Towerbank ASC
  • City of Glasgow College
  • Twinkle Stars Childcare
  • East Lothian Play Association
  • Highland Council
  • Dalmilling Primary School
  • Four Seasons Nursery
  • Beatlie Primary School
  • Clydesdale After School Care
  • Shetland Islands Council
  • Stanmore House School – Capability Scotland
  • Cambusbarron Village Nursery
  • Barnardo’s Scotland

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